Brogan Morris
@broganjmorris.bsky.social
Writing about film at BFI, Guardian, BBC Culture, The AV Club. London programmer @distortedframe.bsky.social.
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Secret Agent, I spent some time in the mad, paranoid world of the political thriller for the BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
10 great political thrillers
With The Secret Agent coming to cinemas and a Kathryn Bigelow season at BFI Southbank, we look at the tense, paranoid world of the political thriller and how filmmakers have used the genre to expose i...
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February 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Secret Agent, I spent some time in the mad, paranoid world of the political thriller for the BFI. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...
Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights remains the novel's truest adaptation
If you want Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights came to the screen in its best form 15 years ago thanks to Andrea Arnold.
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February 18, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I wrote about Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, an imperfect adaptation (as all WH adaptations are) that gets closer to approximating Brontë's style and meaning than any other has. www.avclub.com/andrea-arnol...
Andrea Arnold didn't like the film, but watching her Wuthering Heights again now it looks like an (imperfect) adaptation which gets much, much closer to putting the book on screen than any other version has. My word, Robbie Ryan's cinematography for this... Elemental cinema vérité.
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Andrea Arnold didn't like the film, but watching her Wuthering Heights again now it looks like an (imperfect) adaptation which gets much, much closer to putting the book on screen than any other version has. My word, Robbie Ryan's cinematography for this... Elemental cinema vérité.
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A new episode awaits so I thought I'd better hurry up and post this from the previous one! What dark forces are lurking within cyberspace? @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and Liam with special guest @broganjmorris.bsky.social cautiously take a peep at our haunted motherboards. rss.com/podcasts/sci...
January 28, 2026 at 2:30 PM
A new episode awaits so I thought I'd better hurry up and post this from the previous one! What dark forces are lurking within cyberspace? @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and Liam with special guest @broganjmorris.bsky.social cautiously take a peep at our haunted motherboards. rss.com/podcasts/sci...
Arriving right at the end of the year, Marty Supreme is the 2025 film I most look forward to revisiting. Every actor, from the top-billed cast to the extras, seems handpicked, while each character reads as so alive and complicated it feels like you could follow them into a film of their own.
December 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Arriving right at the end of the year, Marty Supreme is the 2025 film I most look forward to revisiting. Every actor, from the top-billed cast to the extras, seems handpicked, while each character reads as so alive and complicated it feels like you could follow them into a film of their own.
My contribution to the 2025 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Toyed with putting Bugonia in here instead of Harvest (which had the best film cinematography of 2025), and It Was Just an Accident would have made it in if I'd seen it in time, but you'll have to pry The Naked Gun from my cold, dead hands!
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My contribution to the 2025 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Toyed with putting Bugonia in here instead of Harvest (which had the best film cinematography of 2025), and It Was Just an Accident would have made it in if I'd seen it in time, but you'll have to pry The Naked Gun from my cold, dead hands!
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If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄
If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you're in London and free Tue 16 Dec for a FREE viewing of Sean Baker's Tangerine at The Castle Cinema in Homerton (Hackney), us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for FREE. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 🍊🎄
It was either this or Elf: this festive season at Hackney's Castle, we'll be showing Sean Baker's Tinseltown fairytale Tangerine on its ten-year anniversary. Come on down, have a mulled wine, see a great film (the second best Xmas film ever, says The Guardian): thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...
'Twas the week before Christmas and all through the city not a cinema was stirring except... for our screening of Tangerine on 16th Dec at Castle Cinema. This iPhone shot indie classic is the perfect dose of yuletide adrenaline to counter the Christmas blues. TIX IN BIO and are selling fast!
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It was either this or Elf: this festive season at Hackney's Castle, we'll be showing Sean Baker's Tinseltown fairytale Tangerine on its ten-year anniversary. Come on down, have a mulled wine, see a great film (the second best Xmas film ever, says The Guardian): thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...
My primer on the films of Lynne Ramsay and all their sensational loneliness. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Where to begin with Lynne Ramsay
With her fifth feature, Die My Love, now in cinemas, we track back through the uncompromising career of Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and her jagged tales of human complexity.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My primer on the films of Lynne Ramsay and all their sensational loneliness. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
For my latest I sing the praises of Burn After Reading, one of the stupidest, most pointless films I've ever seen (in a good way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘Such a tonic’: why Burn After Reading is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers remembering their most rewatched comfort film is a tribute to the Coens’ playful star-packed comedy
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November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
For my latest I sing the praises of Burn After Reading, one of the stupidest, most pointless films I've ever seen (in a good way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Merry Christmas Eve, bitch: in our first ever festive slot, we're showing Sean Baker's anarchic breakout film Tangerine at The Castle in Hackney, 6:45pm Tue 16 Dec. What could be more appropriate to the season than 90 minutes of iPhone-shot chaos? 🎄 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...
We're pleased to announce our festive screening at The Castle Cinema next month as Tangerine, Anora director Sean Baker's kinetic LA odyssey shot entirely on smartphones.
Join us 16th Dec to celebrate ten years of this darkly comic Tinseltown fairytale.
🔗 Link in bio for tickets and more info
Join us 16th Dec to celebrate ten years of this darkly comic Tinseltown fairytale.
🔗 Link in bio for tickets and more info
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Merry Christmas Eve, bitch: in our first ever festive slot, we're showing Sean Baker's anarchic breakout film Tangerine at The Castle in Hackney, 6:45pm Tue 16 Dec. What could be more appropriate to the season than 90 minutes of iPhone-shot chaos? 🎄 thecastlecinema.com/programme/10...
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Thank you to @liamdunn82.bsky.social and @lindsayhallam.bsky.social for having me on the latest episode of @scifrightspod.bsky.social to discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project and Pulse, as well as AI, nuclear panic in the movies and the horror of early digital: open.spotify.com/episode/3vwp...
Dirty Computers - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and Pulse (2001)
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October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thank you to @liamdunn82.bsky.social and @lindsayhallam.bsky.social for having me on the latest episode of @scifrightspod.bsky.social to discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project and Pulse, as well as AI, nuclear panic in the movies and the horror of early digital: open.spotify.com/episode/3vwp...
If you're free tomorrow evening and fancy a spooooky screening of J-horror classic Pulse at The Castle Cinema in Hackney, us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for free. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 👻 😱
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you're free tomorrow evening and fancy a spooooky screening of J-horror classic Pulse at The Castle Cinema in Hackney, us good folks at @distortedframe.bsky.social have two tickets that we're giving away for free. First come first served, DM me if you're interested. 👻 😱
I can be sentimental, and moved by stories about good men in trouble. The Smashing Machine didn't floor me - it's too gentle for that - but its message of seeing value in learning to fail did get me pretty good. DJ's (very tender) performance will surprise only those who haven't seen Pain & Gain.
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I can be sentimental, and moved by stories about good men in trouble. The Smashing Machine didn't floor me - it's too gentle for that - but its message of seeing value in learning to fail did get me pretty good. DJ's (very tender) performance will surprise only those who haven't seen Pain & Gain.
The chemistry between these two in Something's Gotta Give is unreal. Keanu's hunky doctor stood no chance.
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The chemistry between these two in Something's Gotta Give is unreal. Keanu's hunky doctor stood no chance.
Happy heavenly 105 to this man: two quite different performers, the intensely insular (and astonishingly beautiful) pre-1956 movie star and the agonisingly vulnerable post-1956 character actor, both great.
BOTD Montgomery Clift!!
MCCT5: 5)Red River (Hawks) 4)Misfits (Huston) 3)Heiress (Wyler) 2)Place/Sun (Stevens) 1)Confess (Hitch)
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MCCT5: 5)Red River (Hawks) 4)Misfits (Huston) 3)Heiress (Wyler) 2)Place/Sun (Stevens) 1)Confess (Hitch)
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Montgomery Clift: 10 essential films
On the centenary of the birth of cinema’s original Method man, we list 10 of the best films featuring the formidably talented Montgomery Clift.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy heavenly 105 to this man: two quite different performers, the intensely insular (and astonishingly beautiful) pre-1956 movie star and the agonisingly vulnerable post-1956 character actor, both great.
The kitchen sink drama continues to be Britain's most reliable contribution to cinema, as Harris Dickinson's directorial debut, Urchin, follows confidently, modestly in the footsteps of Loach and Leigh. My review: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/urchi...
Harris Dickinson’s Homelessness Drama Urchin Is Powerfully Honest British Social Realism
Frank Dillane's nuanced portrayal of a backsliding addict captures a true slice of modern London in Harris Dickinson's debut Urchin.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The kitchen sink drama continues to be Britain's most reliable contribution to cinema, as Harris Dickinson's directorial debut, Urchin, follows confidently, modestly in the footsteps of Loach and Leigh. My review: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/urchi...
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Join us at Castle Cinema on 29th Oct for a Halloween screening of Kyoshi Kurosawa's terrifying J-horror classic PULSE on the big screen.
TIX LINK IN BIO!
TIX LINK IN BIO!
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Join us at Castle Cinema on 29th Oct for a Halloween screening of Kyoshi Kurosawa's terrifying J-horror classic PULSE on the big screen.
TIX LINK IN BIO!
TIX LINK IN BIO!
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Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!
Would you like to meet a ghost?
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!
For the BFI, I revisited some adolescent me favourites for this review of the dud-less career of Paul Thomas Anderson. An interesting moment for me: realising just how many Daniel Plainviewisms have made it into my everyday speech. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Where to begin with Paul Thomas Anderson
One modern classic after another... but as his new film arrives in cinemas, where to dive in?
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September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the BFI, I revisited some adolescent me favourites for this review of the dud-less career of Paul Thomas Anderson. An interesting moment for me: realising just how many Daniel Plainviewisms have made it into my everyday speech. www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!
Would you like to meet a ghost?
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Following our sellout screening of REC last year, on Wed 29 Oct we're back in the big screen at Hackney's Castle Cinema with another modern classic of international horror for Halloween. Come and see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's gloomy techno-horror with an intro by @jaspersharp.bsky.social - if you daaarre!
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Delighted to be introducing probably the greatest J-horror of them all in Hackney for Halloween. See you there!
Would you like to meet a ghost?
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
On 29th Oct join Distorted Frame and @scifrightspod.bsky.social for a Halloween screening of PULSE, a film now routinely ranked amongst the scariest horror movies ever made.
The film will be introduced by the brilliant @jaspersharp.bsky.social.
TIX IN BIO!
September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Delighted to be introducing probably the greatest J-horror of them all in Hackney for Halloween. See you there!
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BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5 5)Last Tycoon (Kazan) 4)Boston Strangler (Fleischer) 3)Spartacus (Kubrick) 2)Some Like it Hot (Wilder) 1)Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
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Finest hours: Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler
On the centenary of his birth, we take a closer look at a fork-in-the-road moment in Tony Curtis’s career: the time he played the nauseating serial killer at the centre of Richard Fleischer’s The Bost...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
BOTD Tony Curtis! MCCT5 5)Last Tycoon (Kazan) 4)Boston Strangler (Fleischer) 3)Spartacus (Kubrick) 2)Some Like it Hot (Wilder) 1)Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
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